Web Research Links for the Week of 12/17/18

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Selco on Gun Confiscation: “Here’s How It Might Actually Go Down” – https://www.theorganicprepper.com/gun-confiscation/ – “Here is how it might actually go down. This is one possible scenario: First, you’ll be labeled as a terrorist, some weird guy who wants to overthrow the government. Maybe your photo will be posted somewhere stating that you are very sick, and that you pose a danger to society… If you are a member of some group, let’s say a prepper group, you all will be labeled as terrorists first, and through the media, you can be portrayed as a domestic terror cell, to the point that your next door neighbor will help police to get you… Do not underestimate the power of the government machine. You may truly be a fighter for constitutional rights and a real patriot, but in 3 days you can become a crazy terrorist that citizens will actually hunt down and shoot like a mad dog… There used to be a law about weapons here, where I live, before the war. And yes, you could own a weapon but it was such a hard law that actually not too many people owned legal weapons… And right when the SHTF, first thing that happened was the confiscation of legal weapons, based on lists of who own legal weapons… Now what people could do then was to say, ‘This is my legal weapon. I have a right to own it, by the law.’ And those who did that usually got shot… There were 20 heavily armed guys at your door asking nicely for your weapon, to be turned over to them in the name of “law” as an effort of a government that wanted to calm down a chaotic situation.”

Signs Of War: UN General Assembly Rejects Russia-Initiated Draft Resolution In Support Of INF Treaty – https://southfront.org/un-general-assembly-rejects-russia-initiated-draft-resolution-in-support-of-inf-treaty/ – “43 states voted for the document, 46 – against, 78 – abstained. The US, European Union states, Ukraine, Japan and Turkey voted against. China, Iran, Syria, member states of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) and some Latin American countries were among the supporters of the document… The draft called on UN GA members to support the treaty as one of the cornerstones of European and international security. The document also called on the signatories to the treaty – Russia and the US – to continue consultations to keep it in place… ‘A threat to the treaty’s existence emerged this October when the United States announced its plans to unilaterally withdraw from it,’ Russia’s Deputy Permanent Representative to the United Nations Dmitry Polyansky said commenting on the draft resolution. He recalled and warned that the breakdown of the treaty is fraught with another round of a full-scale arms race.”

Days Before War? U.S. Concentrates Troops & Withdraws Diplomats – https://southfront.org/days-before-war-u-s-concentrates-troops-withdraws-diplomats/ – “This follows a significant increase of US intelligence gathering missions along the Russian borders during the past 10 days. On December 18, British reconnaissance ship HMS Echo entered the Black Sea in order to collect fresh data about water depths and streams for surface and underwater submarine fleets of NATO member states… On December 18, the US and its allies forced through a UN General Assembly resolution condemning the alleged militarization of Crimea, the Sea of Azov and the Black Sea and supporting Ukrainian actions in the region. The passed resolution is a clear signal to the Poroshenko regime that the Euro-Atlantic elite fully supports its actions… The passed resolution also marked the start of a new round of pre-war media hysteria in Ukraine. A week ago, President Petro Poroshenko delcared that the Ukrainian military has started redeploying assault units of the Air Assault Forces (AAF) to the areas of a possible “Russian invasion”.”

Donald Trump is Finished!!! – Comment: This Is A Bombshell! (3min 22sec):

Britain’s Real Enemy, Not Russia – by Finian Cunningham – http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/50805.htm – “Nothing it seems would please Britain’s callow defense minister than to start a war with Russia. For him that would be a pinnacle career move even though the country he is supposed to be defending might possibly end up as a heap of radioactive ashes. Imagine him atop the pinnacle with a potty on his head and radioactive ruins below… This scaremongering, warmongering Russophobia is all about keeping idiots like Williamson in a high-paying job. And no doubt a plush job to follow at some warmongering pro-NATO think-tank… However, this week’s installment involving sending British forces to the Arctic “to defend Britain from Russia” is obviously aimed at the additional purpose of distracting Britons from the Brexit mess that Williamson’s government has created.”

Trump Steals Prize For Defeating ISIS – U.S. To Pull Troops From Syria Immediately – by Moon Of Alabama – http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/50802.htm – Comment: Another take on the rapidly unfolding situation in Syria following Trump’s announcement yesterday. Straight talk from Moon of Alabama, also includes an update article from Zero Hedge.

David Wilcock has just released information“based on his insiders” that the town of Paradise was one of two cities in the U.S. where humanoid alien “Centaurians” lived in significant numbers, “by treaty” with the U.S. – I smell a disinfo campaign at work here, as well (38 min)

Filmmaker Ron Howard to Make Camp Fire Documentary – Howard is conducting interviews for his project, and is expected to return several times – https://www.actionnewsnow.com/content/news/Filmmaker-Ron-Howard-to-make-Camp-Fire-Documentary-503094282.html – Email reaction to this news from Deborah Tavares: “HOLLYwood, the “Wizards Stick” of media propaganda is moving into Paradise to create the false fire narrative… We need to find out who’s financing this documentary and follow the script as fire survivors are interviewed, and who is “selected” to be interviewed. We must also watch to see where the funds from this documentary go… Remember, in Santa Rosa, a documentary was released one year after the TUBBS Fire of November 2017. This documentary was entitled “Urban Inferno – the Night Santa Rosa Burned”. The profits went to the Sonoma County Community Resilience Fund, a Rockefeller and Rothschild resilience scheme to help finance the destruction, damage, and death they created. .. You will not hear the truth about the FIRES in Butte County, California… The script will most likely omit – ● that PG&E is Rothschild (conrolled); ● Directed Energy Weapons were deployed; ● there were Heavy Heavy Chemtrailed Skies days before the fires; ● Smart Meters Blew-up (WERE Blown-up); ● the fires were a house to house ignition; ● the trees resisted the fires; ● the weather on demand facilitated the ideal fire conditions… Paradise is GOLD Country… Climate Action Plans were approved by the Butte County city and county boards – plans stating the county would face floods, fires, heat events, water shortages and more if CO2 emissions were not reduced. The Climate Action and Resilient, which Butte County adopted, are plans of land restrictions, energy and resource “required” reductions. In short, these United Nation Plans are CRIMINAL Plans of DEATH . . . and more… The climate action and resilient plans have been approved in communities nationwide and worldwide… Understand the Camp Fires, in Butte County are an active criminal crime scene and the perpetrators are conducting the investigations that the media will advance as the cause… Will your town of deliberate destruction be the next Hollywood Documentary?.. WE MUST ALL WORK TOGETHER TO ‘EXPOSE’ THE TRUTH” – Comment: While Tavares and I don’t agree on what the evidence from “The Camp Fire” indicates, she is, I think, correct about the significance of the sudden emergence of a major documentary with Hollywood blockbuster director Ron Howard at the helm. The fantasy just keeps unwinding.

Prelude to Caribbean Crisis 2.0? Russia reportedly eyes air base off Venezuela’s coast – https://www.rt.com/news/446899-russia-military-base-venezuela/ – “Shoigu has so far only confirmed that the Russian military aircraft will continue to fly to Venezuela while the Russian Navy vessels might also use its ports… However, located far away from the Russian territory, Moscow would likely need a full-scale military facility, Sivkov said, adding that a small installation would not be enough to support Russia’s operations in the area. ‘It might be initially reduced to a limited presence at a level of a flying squadron or an air regiment,’ he said, adding that the Russia would then likely increase its presence by building fuel and munitions depots as well as deploying air defense systems to the area and making the Venezuelan installation potentially similar to Russia’s Syrian Khmeimim base… The arrival of just two Russian Tu-160 strategic bombers for drills in Venezuela has already jangled nerves in Washington and provoked a wave of hysteria in the Western media. Some even closely examined the potential base location using satellite photos and called it “an unprecedented standing strategic threat to the mainland United States within the Western Hemisphere.”

SHOCKING AGENDA 21 ORDINANCE PASSES IN 80 SECONDS. PEOPLE FORCED TO PAY FOR THEIR OWN PROSECUTION(14 min) – Riverside County “flash approves” Code Enforcement “ordinance” hiring 10 new “code enforcers” and creating a fee structure to be applied to people targeted by the enforcers. Homes will be taken, most likely.

UK court jails neo-Nazi couple who named child after Hitler – Adam Thomas and Claudia Patatas sentenced to 6.5 and 5 years in prison, respectively, for membership in group banned under anti-terror laws – https://www.timesofisrael.com/uk-court-jails-neo-nazi-couple-who-named-child-after-hitler/ – “National Action wanted ‘the overthrow of democracy in this country by serious violence and murder, and the imposition of a Nazi-style state which would eradicate whole sections of society by such violence and mass-murder,’ Inman said.” Comment: So National Action might impose a Nazi-Style state that would send people to prison for association with a group it banned? That would be bad.

WaPo’s take: Trump administration plans to pull U.S. troops from Syria immediately, officials say – by Missy Ryan – https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/trump-administration-plans-to-pull-us-troops-from-syria-immediately-defense-official-says/2018/12/19/4fcf188e-0397-11e9-b5df-5d3874f1ac36_story.html – “Col. Rob Manning, a Pentagon spokesman, said U.S. forces continue to work with their partners in Syria “at this time.” It wasn’t immediately clear whether the United States would continue to conduct airstrikes on militant targets in Syria once forces depart… The withdrawal plans leave major questions for an alliance of U.S.-backed Kurdish and Arab militias, known as the Syrian Democratic Forces, or SDF, which has provided key aid for U.S. forces in the fight against the Islamic State… Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), who shares the president’s distaste for foreign wars, said on Twitter that he was ‘happy to see a President who can declare victory and bring our troops out of a war. It’s been a long time since that has happened.’ ”

From the Stop-The-Presses Desk:U.S. Military Preparing for a Full Withdrawal of Its Forces From Syria – by Dion Nissenbaum and Nancy A. Youssef – https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-military-preparing-for-a-full-withdrawal-of-its-forces-from-northeastern-syria-11545225641 – “U.S. officials began informing partners in northeastern Syria of their plans to begin an immediate pullout of American forces from the region where they have been trying to wrap up the campaign against Islamic State, the people said… ‘The Pentagon has an order to move troops out of Syria as quickly as possible’” a U.S. official said… U.S. military officials have refused to say what a withdrawal timeline could look like… The White House didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment on the move. But President Trump wrote on Twitter Wednesday morning that ‘We have defeated ISIS in Syria, my only reason for being there during the Trump Presidency.’ (Question: When WOULD The Donald be in Syria OTHER than “during the Trump Presidency?” Just askin’.)… The U.S. sent in diplomatic teams to help rebuild northeastern Syria as the military set up new outposts on the country’s border with Turkey, which views them as an effort to shield America’s Kurdish partners from an attack by Turkish forces… Earlier this month, Mr. Erdogan moved Turkish military forces to the border and threatened to attack the Kurdish forces within days… Mr. Trump and Mr. Erdogan spoke last Friday, and the discussions about withdrawing U.S. forces moved rapidly.” (emphasis added) – Comment: Is it only me, or does it seem as if “the U.S.” is clearing the way for a major invasion and occupation of Northeastern Syria by the Turks?

From the Round-Up-The-Usual-Suspects Desk: Haley Urges Palestinians to Accept a Peace Deal with Israel – by Margaret Besheer – https://www.voanews.com/a/haley-urges-palestinians-to-accept-a-peace-deal-with-israel/4705880.html – ” ‘It is time we faced a hard truth: both sides would benefit greatly from a peace agreement, but the Palestinians would benefit more, and the Israelis would risk more,’ Haley said Tuesday at her final appearance at the monthly Security Council meeting on the Middle East issue… ‘Israel is a thriving, strong, prosperous country,’ Haley told fellow ambassadors. ‘It has always wanted peace with its neighbors. It has clearly demonstrated its willingness to make big sacrifices for peace, including giving up large areas of land, but Israel will not make a peace agreement at any price, and it shouldn’t,’ she said.” (emphasis added) – Quote: “Political language… is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.” -George Orwell

From The-Gift-That-Keeps-On-Giving Desk: Russian disinformation teams targeted Robert S. Mueller III, says report prepared for Senate – by Craig Timberg, Tony Romm and Elizabeth Dwoskin – https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/russian-disinformation-teams-targeted-robert-s-mueller-iii-says-report-prepared-for-senate/2018/12/17/0e0047f6-0230-11e9-8186-4ec26a485713_story.html – “The Russian operatives unloaded on Mueller through fake accounts on Facebook, Twitter and beyond, falsely claiming that the former FBI director was corrupt and that the allegations of Russian interference in the 2016 election were crackpot conspiracies. One post on Instagram — which emerged as an especially potent weapon in the Russian social media arsenal — claimed that Mueller had worked in the past with “radical Islamic groups.”.. Such tactics exemplified how Russian teams ranged nimbly across social media platforms in a shrewd online influence operation aimed squarely at American voters.” (emphasis added) – Rank Hypocrisy: When a party, in its operations, does precisely what it is accusing another party of doing.

Nvidia’s Scary AI Generates Humans That Look 100% Real – by Jesus Diaz – https://www.tomsguide.com/us/nvidia-ai-faces-generative-adversarial-network,news-28869.html – “The technology works so well that we can expect synthetic image search engines soon — just like Google’s, but generating new fake images on the fly that look real. Yes, you know where that is going — and sure, it can be a lot of fun, but also scary. Check out the video. It truly defies belief…”

Are We Microchipping Our Way Into Madness, Menstrual Problems, Miscarriages, And Other Maladies? – by Patricia Burke – https://www.activistpost.com/2018/12/are-we-microchipping-our-way-into-madness-menstrual-problems-miscarriages-and-other-maladies.html – “Acupuncture is a practice that spans back several thousand years, and acupuncture tells us that cutting the hand along the 4th point Large Intestine meridian to insert an RFIC chip is probably a very bad idea… Traditional Chinese medicine has outlined the therapeutic applications of stimulating LI4 via acupuncture or acupressure, for example by using pressure, needling, or heat (moxa) either via self-care or under the care of a skilled practitioner… We do not have any evidence that randomly stimulating the meridian point will not cause harm. And in fact It is likely that cutting the point and then inserting an RFID chip will be a form of what TCM would deem an “insult” to that energy system… We don’t’ have any evidence that the practice of microchipping the hand is safe because we are deploying technologies right and left that have not been pre-market safety tested.”

With guns out, Israeli and Lebanese soldiers squabble at border – by Judah Ari Gross – https://www.timesofisrael.com/with-guns-out-israeli-lebanese-soldiers-squabble-at-border/ – “Israeli officials have indicated that the IDF may operate within Lebanese territory, if necessary, to destroy the tunnels. Lebanese President Michel Aoun, a Hezbollah ally, said Tuesday that the United States assured him that Israel has “no aggressive intentions” with its Operation Northern Shield.” (emphasis added) – Comment: All articles on this IDF operation always use the term “attack tunnels,” usually multiple times, to make sure that we all understand that “attack tunnels” are real!

From the Pay-No-Attention-To-The-Man-Behind-The-Curtain Desk:The Daily 202: Russian efforts to manipulate African Americans show sophistication of disinformation campaign – by James Hohmann – https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/paloma/daily-202/2018/12/17/daily-202-russian-efforts-to-manipulate-african-americans-show-sophistication-of-disinformation-campaign/5c1739291b326b2d6629d4c6/ – “Researchers at Oxford University’s Computational Propaganda Project and Graphika, a network analysis firm, spent seven months analyzing millions of social media posts that major technology firms turned over to congressional investigators. Their goal was to understand the inner workings of the Internet Research Agency, which the U.S. government has charged with criminal offenses for interfering in the 2016 election… It turns out that African Americans were targeted with more Facebook ads than any other group, including conservatives.” (emphasis added) – Comment: The 2 groups bolded above are essentially clients of UK intelligence agencies. This is the nexus out of which the entire Trump/Russian Conspiracy meme emerged, to be foisted on the American people by elements in the DNC, U.S. intelligence/FBI, mainstream media, and the non-profit sector.